On This Day (September 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as which Antipope ?

2. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Where is Sanlucar de Barrameda ?

3. 1835 – Which decade-long war starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil ?

4. 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of which city by troops loyal to the East India Company ?

5. 1906 – The Cunard Line's "RMS Mauretania" is launched at which port ?

6. 1942 – The Holocaust: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv in which country ?

7. 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed due to World War II. Which British film won the most prestigious award ?

8. 1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering which University ?

9. 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched from which port ?

10. 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to do what ?

11. 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, and five others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in which US state ?

12. 1977 – Which Asian country is admitted to the United Nations ?

13. 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in which city ?

14. 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on ....." , what ?

15. 2019 – Roughly 4 million people demonstrate against climate change. 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in which city ?